It's no different if someone came onto BP and started checking out everyone's profiles and building a spam list that way.  

This investor might be gambling that you miss the balloon date, he forecloses, he keeps the down payment, and he repeats.  

I'm quite careful about spam and such.Thanks for any help.

I don't like the lack of control and the entire thing strikes me as a legalized gambling operation where the house has their thumb on the wheel.  

I'm not trying to solicit and send spam to peoples inbox because I don't to be known as "THAT" person.  

So you may have been emailing on listings that sold long ago. 2) It is entirely possible you emails were ending up in their spam folders.  

Taking this approach puts a little more burden on the investor asking the question, but it ensure I can't be accused of spamming or anything like that.

This is a heck of a gamble.

For $50 a month, you are really taking a gamble on not getting the 3 showers a day tenant like @Colleen F. talks about.

Unfortunately you just have to pay it or walk away from the idea of getting clear title as you have no grounds to stand on in these situations as you ARE subject to the first mortgage at the least.It is a legal form of gambling and not for those that aren't prepared to lose everything they spend on these deals.